Rita Therese’s Come is a memoir of addiction, sex work, drugs, memory, money, and survival, written with a bluntness that does not bother dressing itself.

Moving through strip clubs, coke, bad men, fleeting tenderness, dissociation, labour, and the strange administrative burden of staying alive, it sits in that uneasy zone between confession and analysis: intimate, but not soft; exposed, but not performing damage for applause.

There is a sharp Australian specificity here too — not just in place, but in atmosphere: bars, bedrooms, cash, shame, heat, and the machinery of desire made ordinary enough to be devastating. A strong fit for readers interested in contemporary memoir, addiction writing, sex work narratives, feminist life-writing, and books that understand the body as both evidence and unreliable witness.

Allen & Unwin paperback, first edition, first printing, 2020. Illustrated by Maddy Young. Good second-hand condition, with light cover wear, minor edge and corner wear, and mild page toning. Binding sound and text clean.